I had some pretty cool news the other day. A longtime family friend of mine, Christine Griffiths, received news on the weekend that she’ll be one of eight Australians picked to carry the Olympic torch on it’s relay for the next Winter Olympics in Torino Italy in 2006. Christine has already had the honor of [...]

Quite a number of years ago now I was once asked to be one of two judges for a children’s story competition. Kids from all around the state (though it might have been all of Australia actually?) submitted the text and illustrations for an original story that I then had to pick a winner and [...]

Oh no! The telemarketer from hell is back again and annoying me constantly. This woman just won’t take NO for an answer! I think I’m gonna have to resort to SCREAMING AT HER and hanging up the phone almost immediately! I have to say that in times like this it sucks that I was brought [...]

When I first started this blog not all that long ago I had to decide on a short little “catch cry” to describe what people might expect when reading it – just a descriptive passage that I could then transpose wherever I saw fit. I quickly came up with “The musings, mutterings and everyday meanderings [...]